Crime in Rochester, Michigan
Major crime in Rochester is 82% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 81% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Rochester is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rochester for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across Rochester
The middle half of Rochester residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 8 and 26; the typical (median) resident's is 14. The citywide figure (18) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5095.1%
- 50–1004.9%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes and on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Michigan as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Rochester against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
2,139 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rochester; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rochester has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rochester Hills (2 mi), is 1.7 times Rochester's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rochester
What are the most common crimes in Rochester?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 18 a year), theft from vehicle (about 7 a year) and aggravated assault (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 64% below the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Rochester's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rochester has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 12,887. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rochester, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/rochester
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rochester Hills2 mi32
- Auburn Hills6 mi106
- Utica7 mi174
- Troy7 mi63
- Sterling Heights9 mi70
- Pontiac9 mi137
- Lake Orion9 mi32
- Romeo10 mi27